{"id":2511,"date":"2016-03-10T01:56:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T00:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2511"},"modified":"2016-03-03T04:04:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T03:04:36","slug":"time-and-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2511","title":{"rendered":"Time and Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have some years<br \/>\nI\u2019d like to give away.<br \/>\nNot that I don\u2019t want them.<br \/>\nNot that they weren\u2019t wonderful.<br \/>\nBut, I have so many now<br \/>\nbeing older than most people,<br \/>\nthere may be things they could use<br \/>\nin them.<br \/>\nI believe one only needs<br \/>\nfive or six years<br \/>\nto have enough of the world\u2019s wonder.<br \/>\nTo understand miracles.<br \/>\nTo get love and trust right.<br \/>\nTo grow beautiful things<br \/>\ninside yourself.<\/p>\n<p>So I would love to give<br \/>\nsome time and life away.<br \/>\nThe right pieces left in them.<br \/>\nThings to help them think.<br \/>\nThings to help them feel.<br \/>\nThings that helped me to believe<br \/>\nand be generous.<br \/>\nThings to help make time count,<br \/>\nshed light preciously,<br \/>\nhow to cook and clean,<br \/>\nbe cheerful,<br \/>\nlove openly and be patient,<br \/>\nand things to ease the fears<br \/>\nfrom walking down paths<br \/>\nso new,<br \/>\nso far,<br \/>\nthat the end of the earth<br \/>\nhas to catch up with you<br \/>\nduring the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have some years I\u2019d like to give away. Not that I don\u2019t want them. Not that they weren\u2019t wonderful. But, I have so many&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2511\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time and Life<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-index-of-all-poems","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4600,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions\/4600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}